Experience and Educationis the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education(Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a result of his intervening experience with the progressive schools and in the light of the criticisms his theories had received. Analysing both "traditional" and "progressive" education, Dr. Dewey here insists that neither the old nor the new education is adequate and that each is miseducative because neither of them applies the principles of a carefully developed philosophy of experience. Many pages of this volume illustrate Dr. Dewey's ideas for a philosophy of experience and its relation to education. He particularly urges that all teachers and educators looking for a new movement in education should think in terms of the deeped and larger issues of education rather than in terms of some divisive "ism" about education, even such an "ism" as "progressivism." His philosophy, here expressed in its most essential, most readable form, predicates an American educational system that respects all sources of experience, on that offers a true learning situation that is both historical and social, both orderly and dynamic.

经验与教育 = Experience and education

This paper reviews the use of case study research in operations management for theory development and testing. It draws on the literature on case research in a number of disciplines and uses examples drawn from operations management research. It provides guidelines and a roadmap for operations management researchers wishing to design, develop and conduct case‐based research.

Case research in operations management

Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Edited by I. Lakatos and A. Musgrave. Pp. viii, 282. £3·50, paperback £1. 1970. (Cambridge University Press.)

Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. Part of this knowledge will reach the firm from external sources. Several authors have documented the existence of these external information flows and have commented on their importance for decisions at the firm level (Adam B. Jaffe, 1986; Jeffrey I. Bernstein and M. Ishaq Nadiri, 1988) and ultimately for economic growth (Paul M. Romer, 1990; Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman, 1991; Zvi Griliches, 1992). One challenge facing this literature has been the measurement of these information flows or “spillovers” between firms and gauging their effect on different innovation management decisions by the firm. While assessing spillovers, it is important to distinguish between incoming spillovers, which affect the rate of innovation of the firm, and appropriability, which affects the ability of the firm to appropriate the returns from innovation. The information sources for incoming spillovers are usually situated in the public domain, and their usefulness to the firm depend on the firm’s ability to create information flows from this public pool of knowledge. But firms also attempt to appropriate the benefits of their innovations by controlling the information flows out of the company into the pool of publicly available information. The relevance of distinguishing between incoming spillovers and appropriability is revealed when we use these measures to analyze their impact on the decision of firms to engage in cooperative RD Morton I. Kamien et al., 1992; Raymond De Bondt, 1997). On the other hand, imperfect appropriability increases the incentive of firms to free ride on each other’s RD Katrien Kesteloot and Veugelers, 1995) and encourages free-riding on the RD Veugelers: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and CEPR, Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven, Belgium (e-mail: Reinhilde.Veugelers@econ.kuleuven.ac.be). The authors would especially like to thank an anonymous referee, as well as Raymond De Bondt, Paul Geroski, Mort Kamien, Steve Martin, Marno Verbeek, Gary Charness, James Costain, and Harry Bowen, for very helpful comments. We also thank the seminar participants at the London Business School, IESE Business School, Universidad Carlos III, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Universidad de Zaragoza, Universidad Publica de Navarra, the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and Paris I and Paris XII, and the participants in ASSET (Bologna), LASEM (Cancun), and EARIE (Turin). The DWTC and IWT generously provided the data for this research. Cassiman acknowledges support from BEC2000-1026 and CIRIT 1997SGR00138, and Veugelers from CNRS, Enjeux Economiques de l’Innovation, and NFWO (G.0131.98). The paper was to a large extent written while Cassiman was assistant professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and Veugelers was visiting the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and MIT [Sloan School (ICRMOT)].

R&D cooperation and spillovers: Some empirical evidence from Belgium

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Effects of innovation types on firm performance

Due to external challenges necessitating high degrees of innovation and customisation without sacrificing cost and quality, many industrial firms need to transform their entire approach to product development. Traditionally, industrial firms have adopted a singular approach to product development based on theories that deal with the development of individual products, individual projects and their management, individual designers and developers, and so on. However, in order to mass-customise products and services - whilst, at the same time, standardising and streamlining a product platform internally - it is necessary to transform product development theory and praxis towards a perception called Multiple Product Development.

Innovation and learning

This paper is concerned with the formulation of a framework for understanding the development and change of the competences of firms. Today, there is near universal agreement that the competitiveness of firms rests on the (core) competences that firms possess. However, little attention has been devoted to the notion of competence development. In the paper, it will be argued that there is, indeed, a need for research and management practice of competence development. It will also be argued that organisational learning theory is a key to understanding competence development. Based on this, a model for competence development is proposed. This is the main contribution of the paper. The paper then concludes with a number of questions yet to be answered by research on competence‐based strategy.

Organisational learning and competence development

The need for firms to become more innovative has probably never been greater. Today concepts such as the new economy, new technologies, hyper‐competition and clock speed are used to explain that the dynamics of competition and markets has never been greater. Thus, there is a large focus on the concept of innovation management in firms. Discusses innovation management, understood as being the activities that firms undertake in order to yield new solutions within products, production and administration. The main contribution is a discussion of how a general framework for innovation management can be tailored to individual situations/different firms.

Situations for innovation management: towards a contingency model

This article is about managing industrial buyer‐supplier relations as seen from the customer perspective. Two successful examples of supplier network management are described, and the limits to broader applicability of these supply management principles discussed. Next the focus is on managing the dyadic relation. Contributions from four of the most influential groups of researchers on the subject are overviewed. Empirical findings from a case study from industry are presented, leading to a short conceptual presentation of an alternative supply management approach. The empirical contribution comes from two case studies carried out at the Danish industrial company Danfoss Drives, which produces frequency converters and is a division of the Danfoss industrial corporation. One case study is about the characteristics of a supplier network supplying aluminum components to Danfoss Drives. The other is about the evolution of one of the industrial buyer‐supplier relations in the aluminum network – between Danfoss Drives and a supplier of extruded aluminum components.

Anders Drejer

Papers

Innovation and learning

Organisational learning and competence development

Situations for innovation management: towards a contingency model

Managing industrial buyer-supplier relations - the case of attractiveness

The discipline of management of technology, based on considerations related to technology